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From: robin@csuchico.edu (Robin Goldstone)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: question about SMTP MX records
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Date: 18 Oct 90 16:42:00 GMT
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Organization: California State University, Chico
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I am trying to send a message to someone@applelink.apple.com.  This
host has no TYPE A record, only an MX record.  My mailer currently
cannot resolve MX records.  As a workaround, I thought I would just
send to someone%applelink.apple.com@apple.com.  It is my (limited) 
understanding that addresses are parsed from right to left, so this
message would be sent to apple.com, who would then be able to forward
it to applelink.apple.com.

Some questions:
1) is the syntax of the address I am trying to use valid?
2) am I violating any network rules by routing my message through
another host?
3) should this message be getting delivered?  
I have sent several test messages that have disappeared into a black hole...

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Robin Goldstone, Systems Software Specialist
California State University, Chico Computing Services
robin@csuchico.edu